John Sherer’s poem A Breeze on Farmers’s Curfew appeared here in July. John asks existential questions that resonate with us regardless of our age. My Future By John Sherer What’s more money going to do When I’ve got enough for my food? What’s a school gonna teach When I can read a book? Why must I run […]

You read Mommy Woes most recently. And then you heard KJ Hannah Greenberg talk about writing and parenting and squeezing 50 hours out of a day on 15 Minutes of Poetry. Today we get a look at childhood not through the eyes of a mommy, but through memory as childhood evaporates in the grown-up realities of the adult […]

You know her as Chef E, the indomitable founder of WAMPP, and the poet who gave us Arch. As you know, WAMPP’s big official opening is this Saturday in Pennington NJ at the Straube Center and its purpose is to bring the arts together to celebrate life and to raise money for research on congenital heart […]

Sara Endo’s most recent poem was a reader favorite, The explosion (twenty months). Today she gives us another look at life with young children, and once again she does it with style. Yes By Sarah Endo Yes, you can jump on the bed, be loud and silly chant, “more bok-bok, more bok-bok” while eating your chicken […]

Darryl Willis is the Director of Eastern European Mission Youth Camp Program (Ukraine), a trainer and curriculum writer, and a minister. He volunteers with a Critical Incident Stress debriefing team in Dallas TX. Darryl also writes poetry, which you can read more of at his blog. This poem describes a certain kind of ministry, but I […]